Yesterday, we drove over to our old home Les Gets, France for the opening of their summer season. The lifts were opening for the weekend and I wanted to try riding a downhill bike at their bike park.
Downhill Fun
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Riding the Portes du Soleil
Last Friday, we rode 50km of the classic ‘Portes du Soleil’ linked trail system in 8 hours!
According to www.portesdusoleil.com ‘The Portes du Soleil is made up of 12 linked Alpine village resorts either side of the French-Swiss border. There are 650km of signposted MTB trails and 800km of marked walking trails all accessible via the summer mountain lift network’.
There is a marked Portes du Soleil route that you can follow which is 80km and uses lifts to cut down on the amount of climbing. The lift system is what makes this route great as you give your bike to the liftie who puts it on the rail or hook then you and your bike are whisked up the mountain. We chose to do 50km of the classic route which used 7 lifts.
Running, riding & sunbathing
Well, we made it! After six months of soul destroying living in Milton Keynes we’ve finally got some payback. I’m sitting on the balcony with a view to die for, blogging on my iPad having just walked into Chamonix for some supplies and to drool over the latest running gear – what more can a girl ask for?
Building your own bike
Building your own bike is a very rewarding way of getting exactly what you want in a bike. When finished, your bike will be built to your own specifications and there won’t be another one in the world like it. There are several considerations to take into account when thinking about building your own bike…
The Brazilian
No, I’m not talking about a beauty treatment but rather the fabled ‘Brazilian’ mountain bike trail in the Valais region of Switzerland. We’d heard about it in whispered circles but until recently didn’t know exactly where to find it. Armed with maps, a good idea of what we were looking for and a packed lunch, we set off from Chamonix at 8am on a perfect blue sky day in search of the trail of all trails… (more…)
